These guys shoulda retired back in 2015

Worst take I’ve ever seen on this site

Their best album literally dropped a year after that

It's one hell of grower, and quite the tone setter for the album.

Every album they keep on weeding out the early 20s female fan demographic and this might put them to bed.

nvm its good actually

Music declines when they stop doing d****… he legit says that I’m the lyrics of this song lol still love em doe

damn i f***ing love this song and i usually dislike Jack Antonoff's stuff

Still waiting on Music For Cars

I feel like the album cover tells us that’s never going to happen

Music For *Outside the Cars lol

New song is dope, probably my favourite since Love It If We Made It

So, here we are ushering in the new era of The 1975, in Matty Healy’s stone home that feels like a Japanese monastery. This is the era — rather than it being self-aggrandising, Healy uses this term because his fans adopted it to refer to chapters of The 1975’s career as they do with other pop stars — of embodying the fact that sincerity is scary, properly this time, rather than just singing and speaking about it. The era of vulnerability at the centre of his art and life. The era of no longer being a spokesperson of a generation. The era of being offline and of being, in general. The era of having fallen in love, for real, and writing a markedly sincere love album. The era of wondering, in love’s aftermath, if true love exists at all, but hoping that it does.

rollingstone.co.uk/music/features/the-1975-being-funny-in-a-foreign-language-new-album-interview-19940

the amount of disclaimers throughout this interview i understand why. but it will be interesting to see how this shapes written media going forward and their relationships with pop stars. it'll always be there as a medium but...

the description does get me pretty excited tho

They were no longer being clinical about music, a necessary component of creating the last two records. Some of these songs were recorded in one or two takes. “I’ve always wanted to make something very, very intimate and something that allows you to be witness to a moment,” Healy says.

This intimacy taps into the collective consciousness, though, just as the forms of their previous albums were informed by culture of that year. It’s reflective of oversharing fatigue, opinion fatigue, cynicism fatigue. It’s stripping everything back and living simply, as we were forced to temporarily during the pandemic but, more crucially, that we long for in some elemental way now.

Antonoff confirmed coproducing the whole record

To him, the ability to be funny in a foreign language is the height of sophistication. It means you must have empathy and the will to be vulnerable and human by taking the risk of getting it wrong. “I think the record is about striving for all of these quite ephemeral goals: love, happiness, oneness,” he says.

first explanation of the album title, i guess? lol

Get him OUTTA HERE!!!

How did this guy get big??? He SUCKS, I'm only a dedicated hater of like 3 artists but he's absolutely one of them, there is nothing to enjoy about his contributions to a song

He uses the recent news story about the musician Lizzo using an ableist slur in a new track and the discourse around that as an example. “Nobody was sat at home with their partner coming over to them going ‘Babe, you OK?’ And them going, ‘…It’s just this Lizzo thing.’ You know, that’s never happened. It doesn’t happen. People don’t care like that. And we shouldn’t pretend that we can have the ability to care about everything.”

Matty Healy always been such a real one

oh the track lengths are out too on apple music

the intro/title track is 4:10 lmao wtf did they do to it this time

Since it’s only 11 songs and the intro is presumably just another variation of their usual intro, I hope Happiness is the last single release before the album

there will at least be one more. i might skip this one and any others tbh